Citizen voice
By Technology To Open Institutions and Accountable Politicians
By CRTA The Centre for Research, Transparency and Accountability – CRTA from Serbia on a daily basis monitors, supervises and measures the accountability of politicians and transparency of government institutions. All our projects – Truth-o-meter (istinomer.rs), Open parliament (otvoreniparlament.rs) and Map the Money (pratipare.rs) represent an online base for creating a community of active and responsible citizens willing to demand politicians’ accountability to their citizens. |
App contests
By Anna Kuliberda of TechSoup Global The serious world of the internet, surprisingly enough, also has trends: politicians, like President Obama, want to be on Facebook; public institutions start paying attention to whether their websites are well designed and if they delight the users. Another trendy thing is app contests. |
Know your data formats
By Neil Ashton from Open Knowledge Foundation for the School of Data Program The emancipatory potential of data lies dormant until data is given life in computational applications. Data visualizations, interactive applications, and even simple analyses of data all require that data be made intelligible to some kind of computational process. Democratic engagement with data depends on data being intelligible to as many forms of computation as possible. |
How can citizens create laws via internet and on other e-participation tools?
By Ewa Stokluska When we think about the contribution of various ICT tools to participation, first of all we must remember about broadening the space for civic deliberation. Technology has dramatically increased citizens' ability to communicate with the authorities and the possibility of democratic discussion on public affairs. It means that big groups of people have been given an opportunity to express their opinions, take part in deliberation and even declare their preferences in important matters through voting, regardless of their current location and at a minimal cost. |
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